Building record MAB18375 - BOATLEYS

Farmstead still in use, depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps.

Farmstead still in use, depicted on the OS 1st and 2nd edition maps. The 1st edition shows two a U-plan steading, open to the south with a rectangular building to the south and another to the west. To the notheast is a house and garden enclosure. The layout is similar on the 2nd edition map, but the building west of the steading has been removed. Current maps show that the steading court is now roofed over. A sales brochure of 1932 provides particulars of Boatleys Farm, including details of the farmhouse and the steading. The house comprised a large box room, a kitchen, a dairy, a lobby and eight other rooms. The steading comprised a barn, two stables for a total of four horses, three byres for a total of twenty-six cattle, and a turnip house. At that time the size of the farm was about 126 acres (51ha). A standing building survey of the steading was carried out by MAS in November 2016 ahead of proposed demolition. Documentary evidence indicates that Boatleys was developed from a croft in 1838 to a farm of circa 50 acres with an Improved steading constructed by 1869, and subsequently enlarged. A photographic survey of the outbuildings to the south of the steading was carried out in 2018 prior to proposed demolition.

MURRAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2016, BOATLEYS, KEMNAY, ABERDEENSHIRE: STANDING BUILDING SURVEY, L1 SBS (Bibliographic reference). SAB7293.

ARCHAEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2018, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND, VOLUME 18, 2017, p. 13 (Bibliographic reference). SAB6463.

Apr 30 2018 , APP/2015/1631, APP/2015/1631 (Ground Photograph). SAB34205.

Record last edited

Jul 9 2020 11:34AM